Outcast Grigori of Judgement in the Patronage of Song
Corporeal Forces: 4
Strength: 4
Agility: 12
Ethereal Forces: 6
Intelligence: 12
Precision: 12
Celestial Forces: 6
Will: 12
Perception: 12
Word Forces: 16
Vessels: Elderly Human Male/4, Role (Carthusian Monk)/6
Skills: Artistry (Appreciate Art/2, Appreciate Music/4, Calligraphy/6),
Climbing/1, Detect Lies/4, Dodge/2, Emote/6, Escape/1, Knowledge
(Administration/2, Eastern Philoosphy/6, Christian Theology/6), Languages
(Aramaic/4, Babylonian/1, Latin/6, Written New Testament Greek/6, Written
Biblical Hebrew/5), Medicine/1, Meditation/6, Move Silently/Mastery,
Savoir-Faire/1, Singing/6, Survival(Wilderness)/5, Tactics/1, Tracking/2.
Songs: Healing(Corporeal/3, Ethereal/3, Celestial/6), Motion(Celestial/5),
Silence/Virtuoso, Submission/Virtuoso.
Attunements: Grigori of Judgement, Ofanite of Judgement, Malakite of
Judgement, Incarnate Law, Advocate, Warder, Partial Celestial
Connection(Song), Inner Quiet, the Angel of Silence.
Special Rites: Spend a day without speaking or in peaceful meditation [+3
essence]; Quietly and gratefully appreciate beauty for an hour; Spend an
hour in silent prayer [replace the essence spend on the prayer, to a maximum
of 3 points]; spend a day without creating a disturbance [weird rite: all
essence gained that day is funnelled into the nearest potential Divine
Tether. This does not increase the likelihood of a Tether forming but does
draw the Tether Heavenwards.]
Special Abilities: Baraqel may opt to not create a Disturbance by taking
Soul hits equal to the disturbance in damage; Can detect Disturbances masked
by the Skulker resonance or Humanity attunement; possesses the Move Silently
Skill at Mastery level; and grants the Inner Quiet attunement.
Inner Quiet Attunement: each day the possessor of this attunement spends
without speaking or creating a Disturbance he gains +1 to detect
Disturbances to a maximum bonus equal to his total Forces (for Baraqel,
include his Word Forces). The bonus is kept until the character creates a
disturbance. Baraqel has granted this attunement to many Soldiers of Song;
they tend to be very skilled at Focused Efforts.
Created soon after the Fall, Baraqel earned the Word of Silence after
discovering the Songs of Silence. A Servitor of Dominic, he believed that
the best way to further his Superior's Word was by respecting confidences,
and being a helpful friend whom people could explain their troubles to - and
then use their own judgement to decide what was appropriate. The corruption
of the Grigori proved him wrong; his failure to speak out prevented (in his
mind) the chance to correct the situation before it was too late. At the
trial he asked that the sentence of the rest of Choir be mitigated and his
own worsened, to reflect his failure. Dominic considered his request, and
refused it, sentencing Baraqel impartially with the rest of his Choir.
No tale tells of what Baraqel did over the long millennia which passed after
the Trial. He appeared to Heaven's warriors on occasion, warning of demonic
threats, but otherwise he disappeared. He finally came to Heaven's notice
when he joined the Carthusians during the 12th Century. There he has
remained ever since, watching over the Order and responding to Infernal
threats.
Baraqel's need to respond to diabolical threats without revealing himself or
speaking makes him an unnerving source of information. He will appear in his
monk's robes, either out of thin air (with CelMotion) or by walking through
a wall (with CorpSubmission) and indicate that the angels should follow him,
until he can point out the threat and then vanish. The fact that none of
this causes Disturbance, and the lack of any performance ritual, tends to
unnerve other angels. Occasionally he will leave a note - written in
Medieval calligraphy on vellum. He generally prefers dealing with an
Infernal threat himself, rather than calling in the Host; however minor
matters, or those which require diplomacy, he will delegate.
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